213156 - updating fink version ; adding necessary glib module

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Fink has been updated to 0.5.3

It seems that one also has to explicitly install glib ; at least I had to do
this on a completely clean install of Mac OS X 10.2.6 with clean install of fink
0.5.3

Comment 1

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Attachment: fink - glib patch

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

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Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

for a while I was told that orbit-dev was a requirement, but I think that may no
longer be the case. 

Comment 4

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Attachment: fink et al - v2

This patch is to make the configure process completely happy :-)

When looking at the ./configure output I noticed that it was checking for X11
and freetype stuff. As I had installed XDarwin 4.3.0 it complained about not
finding freetype. Trying to install freetype through fink led to fink
complaining about missing Apple's X11 developer tools, so I installed Apple's
X11 on top of XDarwin - both client and developer - and then the fink freetype.


The result of this is that ./configure doesn't complain anymore.

I *don't* know whether the build process on Mac OS X actually does use any X11
and freetype stuff, but it certainly hasn't hurt me :-D At least builds with
Calendar integrated and calendar_mac.xpi now seems to work on more than the mac
they were built on :-)

Comment 5

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

SFraser : 

As to the orbit-dev, the last time I didn't have that installed, things went
horribly wrong.

But at present I'm just an advanced user able to follow instructions and
extrapolate / guessing the solutions to other issues, so orbit-dev might/might
not still be necessary. My guessing ability is what led me to post this
bug/modification.

To see what I've been up to regarding compiling on Mac OS X, please see here :
http://mozilla.mathiesen.info/

Comment 6

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

OK - bryner%brianryner.com had added the glib step Aug 1 02:13, so that's taken
care of (and I was right :-D )

Does any you have any comments on the other parts of my patch ???

Comment 7

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

I compiled firebird today with XDarwin 4.3.0 from XonX present (NOT Apple's or
Fink's).  Although I don't think Apple's X11 is required, if you do go that
route,  based on other results, you'll probably need BOTH the client and the SDK.

I already had freetype2 (not freetype1) and glib.  I can try compiling next week
without orbit-dev (removing freetype will be more complicated since KDE depends
on it).

Comment 8

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

bug 216076 fixes the issue with Apple X11 and freetype.

Of course, for any source release before 1.5b the procedures described here
still apply if they aren't retroactively implemented.